by mjnelson99 » Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:58 am
When I Image Win 10, there are 4 partitions-3 very small and C:.
Are they all needed? I don't know. I would rather have them as a
precaution though.
Mary
On 7/15/2017 9:42 PM, borate wrote:
> Indeed, it's after the fact now.
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> No drive change; reformatted months ago. The O/S was reinstalled, ridding the laptop of the old 8/8.1 partitions, with back up written shortly thereafter from within the active system (C:\).
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> Then, after things went awry last week and restore was attempted repeatedly without success, the drive was reformatted again (as shown in the graphic). And the O/S was installed afresh.
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> Can't be certain, but as these operations were essentially the same - same drive/same O/S - one might wager that the partitions would be identical. The sole difference that I recall was that the most recent formatting assigned a drive letter D:\ to the recovery partition, which wasn't the case initially.
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> But, say that there was a partitioning change between image creation and restore. Is there a setting or parameter that could have been utilized to overcome the failure?
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> The built-in W10 imaging utility copies both C:\ and the SYSTEM RESERVED partition, something I've never done with IFW. Is that wise, and if so should SYSTEM be incorporated in a single creation or imaged separately?
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